Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events (Volume 129) (Advances in Psychology, Volume 129)

The book is concerned with the cognitive contributions to perception, that is, with the influence of attention, intention, or motor processes on performances in spatial and temporal tasks. The chapters deal with fundamental perceptual processes resulting from the simple localization of an object in space or from the temporal determination of an event within a series of events. Chapters are based on presentations given at the Symposium on the Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events (September 7–9, 1998, Ohlstadt, Germany). Following each chapter are commentary pieces from other researchers in the field. At the meeting, contributors were encouraged to discuss their theoretical positions along with presenting empirical results and the book's commentary sections help to preserve the spirit and controversies of the symposium. The general topic of the book is split into three parts. Two sections are devoted to the perception of unimodal spatial and temporal events; and are accompanied by a third part on spatio-temporal processes in the domain of intermodal integration. The themes of the book are highly topical. There is a growing interest in studies both with healthy persons and with patients that focus on localization errors and dissociations in localizations resulting from different tasks. These errors lead to new concepts of how visual space is represented. Such deviations are not only observed in the spatial domain but in the temporal domain as well. Typical examples are errors in duration judgments or synchronization errors in tapping tasks. In addition, several studies indicate the influence of attention on both the timing and on the localization of dynamic events. Another intriguing question originates from well-known interactions between intermodal events, namely, whether these events are based on a single representation or whether different representations interact. The book is concerned with the cognitive contributions to perception, that is, with the influence of attention, intention, or motor processes on performances in spatial and temporal tasks. The chapters deal with fundamental perceptual processes resulting from the simple localization of an object in space or from the temporal determination of an event within a series of events. Chapters are based on presentations given at the Symposium on the Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events (September 7–9, 1998, Ohlstadt, Germany). Following each chapter are commentary pieces from other researchers in the field. At the meeting, contributors were encouraged to discuss their theoretical positions along with presenting empirical results and the book's commentary sections help to preserve the spirit and controversies of the symposium. The general topic of the book is split into three parts. Two sections are devoted to the perception of unimodal spatial and temporal events; and are accompanied by a third part on spatio-temporal processes in the domain of intermodal integration. The themes of the book are highly topical. There is a growing interest in studies both with healthy persons and with patients that focus on localization errors and dissociations in localizations resulting from different tasks. These errors lead to new concepts of how visual space is represented. Such deviations are not only observed in the spatial domain but in the temporal domain as well. Typical examples are errors in duration judgments or synchronization errors in tapping tasks. In addition, several studies indicate the influence of attention on both the timing and onthe localization of dynamic events. Another intriguing question originates from well-known interactions between intermodal events, namely, whether these events are based on a single representation or whether different representations interact Content: Cognitive contributions to the perception of spatial and temporal events: Editors' introduction Pages XI-XIII GA, TB, JM Cognitive contributions to the perception of spatial events Page 1 Chapter 1 Separate representations of visual space for perception and visually guided behavior Original Research Article Pages 3-13 Bruce Bridgeman The new dissociationism: Implications for action: Commentary on Bridgeman Pages 15-18 Patrick Haggard Chapter 2 On the perception of position Original Research Article Pages 19-37 A.H.C. Van der Heijden, Jochen Müsseler, Bruce Bridgeman Function and processing of “meaningless” and “meaningful” position: Commentary on Van der Heijden et al. Pages 39-42 Peter Wolff Chapter 3 Space perception and intended action Original Research Article Pages 43-63 Peter Wolff The limits of an occasionalist Gibsonian theory of perceptual space: Commentary on Wolff Pages 65-68 Heiko Hecht Chapter 4 Cognition and spatial perception: Production of output or control of input? Original Research Article Pages 69-90 J. Scott Jordan Efference copy and intention: Old wine in New Bottles?: Commentary on Jordan Pages 91-94 Bruce Bridgeman Chapter 5 Motor determinants of a unified world perception Original Research Article Pages 95-111 Jacques Paillard A motor theory again?: Commentary on Paillard Pages 113-115 A.H.C. van der Heijden Can we explain cross-modal representation with neural algorithms alone?: Commentary on Paillard Pages 117-119 Mark A. Elliott Chapter 6 How independent from action control is perception?: An event-coding account for more equally-ranked crosstalks Original Research Article Pages 121-147 Jochen Müsseler Induction and impairment during event control: A means of resolving the perception-action distinction?: Commentary on Müsseler Pages 149-151 J. Scott Jordan Chapter 7 Effects of attention on length perception, gap detection and visual localization: Towards a theory of attentional receptive fields Original Research Article Pages 155-166 Yehoshua Tsal About neural implementation and microgenesis: Commentary on Tsal Pages 167-172 Talis Bachmann Chapter 8 Twelve spatiotemporal phenomena and one explanation Original Research Article Pages 173-206 Talis Bachmann Pertentional retouch, selective attention and synchronicity priming: Commentary on Bachmann Pages 207-212 Hermann J. Müller, Mark A. Elliott Cognitive contributions to the perception of temporal events Page 213 Chapter 9 Perceived timing of self-initiated actions Original Research Article Pages 215-227 Patrick Haggard Mental chronometry and the timing of “high level” conscious intentions: Commentary on Haggard Pages 229-231 Dan Zakay Chapter 10 Action timing in an isochronous tapping task: Evidence from behavioral studies and neuroimaging Original Research Article Pages 233-250 Katharina Müller, Gisa Aschersleben, Robert Koch, Hans-Joachim Freund, Wolfgang Prinz The negative asynchrony phenomenon: A prospective timing perspective: Commentary on Müller et al. Pages 251-257 Dan Zakay, Richard A. Block What is the source of the mean anticipatory synchronisation error during temporal tracking?: Commentary on Müller et al Pages 259-263 Donald J. O'Boyle Chapter 11 Reaction time and temporal-order judgment as measures of perceptual latency: The problem of dissociations Original Research Article Pages 265-282 Piotr Jaśkowski Reaction time and temporal order judgment: Two measures of perceptual latency?: Commentary on Jaśkowski Pages 283-287 Christoph Steglich Characterising perceptual latency: Commentary on Jaśkowski Pages 289-291 Donald J. O'Boyle Chapter 12 Task-dependent timing of perceptual events Original Research Article Pages 293-318 Gisa Aschersleben Some remaining problems on temporal dissociations: Commentary on Aschersleben Pages 319-321 Piotr Jaśkowski Chapter 13 40-Hz-Synchronicity priming of Kanizsa-figure detection demonstrated by a novel psychophysical paradigm Original Research Article Pages 323-340 Hermann J. Müller, Mark A. Elliott Is 40-Hz-synchronicity priming demonstrated by a novel psychophysical paradigm indeed a 40-Hz phenomenon?: Commentary on H. Müller & Elliott Pages 341-343 Katharina Müller Cognitive contributions to the perception of intermodal events Page 345 Chapter 14 Ventriloquism: A case of crossmodal perceptual grouping Original Research Article Pages 347-362 Paul Bertelson The advantages and limitations of the psychophysical staircases procedure in the study of intersensory bias: Commentary on Bertelson Pages 363-369 Robert B. Welch Chapter 15 Meaning, attention, and the “unity assumption” in the intersensory bias of spatial and temporal perceptions Original Research Article Pages 371-387 Robert B. Welch Ventriloquism and the nature of the unity decision: Commentary on Welch Pages 389-393 Jean Vroomen Chapter 16 The development of temporal and spatial intermodal perception Original Research Article Pages 395-420 David J. Lewkowicz On the asymmetry of the temporal contiguity window: Commentary on Lewkowicz Pages 421-424 Gisa Aschersleben Chapter 17 Seeing cries and hearing smiles: Crossmodal perception of emotional expressions Original Research Article Pages 425-438 Beatrice de Gelder, Jean Vroomen, Gilles Pourtois Crossmodal perception and the function of emotion: Commentary on de Gelder et al. Pages 439-443 Heiko Hecht Author index Pages 445-456 Subject index Pages 457-460 The book is concerned with the cognitive contributions to perception, that is, with the influence of attention, intention, or motor processes on performances in spatial and temporal tasks. The chapters deal with fundamental perceptual processes resulting from the simple localization of an object in space or from the temporal determination of an event within a series of events. Chapters are based on presentations given at the Symposium on the Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events (September 7 & ndash;9, 1998, Ohlstadt, Germany). Following each chapter are commentary pieces from other researchers in the field. At the meeting, contributors were encouraged to discuss their theoretical positions along with presenting empirical results and the book's commentary sections help to preserve the spirit and controversies of the symposium. The general topic of the book is split into three parts. Two sections are devoted to the perception of unimodal spatial and temporal events; and are accompanied by a third part on spatio-temporal processes in the domain of intermodal integration. The themes of the book are highly topical. There is a growing interest in studies both with healthy persons and with patients that focus on localization errors and dissociations in localizations resulting from different tasks. These errors lead to new concepts of how visual space is represented. Such deviations are not only observed in the spatial domain but in the temporal domain as well. Typical examples are errors in duration judgments or synchronization errors in tapping tasks. In addition, several studies indicate the influence of attention on both the timing and on the localization of dynamic events. Another intriguing question originates from well-known interactions between intermodal events, namely, whether these events are based on a single representation or whether different representations interact